"Newt Gingrich emerged from Tuesday's fiery Republican debates as the voice of reason"

A piece on TheStreet.com opens:

Newt Gingrich emerged from Tuesday's fiery Republican debates as the voice of reason among a group of frantic GOPers.

Joe Deaux continued:

Gingrich proved again that he understands the legislative process more fully than any of the other candidates, and he used his weighty House experience to rise above petty eruptions that characterized the event.

And later in the article:

"I thought Newt Gingrich [won] because he was kind of above it all -- all the bickering and attacking and the infighting," Tim Callanan, Berkeley County, S.C., Republican Party chairman, told TheStreet. "Regardless of that, he was extremely effective in what he said."